Faux painting white cabinets

[Carolyn22]

Is there a relatively easy way to warm up white cabinets? They are satin finish, oil-based, factory painted.

[kimeyers]

Yes there's a way, but relative ease depends on how you define ease. You can glaze them, and working with an oil based glaze will give you a long working time. I don't know how it would go on over a satin, but you could experiment.

Benjamin Moore makes (or at least used to) a good oil based glaze. Choose the color of the glaze, paint some practice boards (poster board works) and play around for a while. Try rubbing the glaze (direction of the grain) then dragging with a dry brush (paying close attention to areas where you stopped dragging with the cloth, as there will be distinct marks where you have stopped. Another option is to use a stain for the glaze, but I have never done this and don't know how it works and what the dry time is.

I also recommend taking them off the bases and doing this while they lay flat. I watched some home improvement show last night where they did it while hung, and even the professional got rather cruddy looking results, trying to avoid the hardware.